According to the author, it is set to be included in the upcoming KDE 4.9 release. As for system performance, we're going to go out on a limb here and say that you'll likely need a newer PC with a dedicated graphics card to truly get your money's worth out of these live wallpapers.
The author maintains a development blog where he does include some performance specs for those who are curious. Here's an excerpt on performance (translated via Google Translate):
At a resolution of 1920x1080 on the configuration equipped with a processor i5-2500@3.30GHz, playback at 25 frames per second, load average quad stands at 16%.
The blog, translated to English, can be found here, while the original link, in Polish, is here.
For those with adequate systems, DreamDesktop looks to take a modern and beautiful spin on an old classic. What do you think?
16% for that simple video is too many. As I know this is because of Plasma, it requires to redraw the whole screen for each frame, or something like that, thus such features can't have good performance in KDE.
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